2 issues: Roaming Profiles & File create permissions

[Gerry George]

I am running samba 2.0.6 on Linux (Suse 6.4) as a PDC, serving shares to 
WinNT & Win98 clients.  Domain logons are working as expected.

However, I notice that any file created by a user and stored on to a share 
is created with UID=root.  I'm not sure exactly why, I somehow expected 
that the files would be created with UID of the logged-on user.  I do not 
have the smb.conf file here - forgot to take a copy home with me to 
post.  I don't notice anything particularly odd in the config file to 
indicate what is wrong  On another client's server, the permissions are OK.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can focus my attention?



Another issue - Roaming Profiles

It seems to work - somewhat.
I have logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
and
[Profile]
path = /home/samba/Profile
create mode = 0600
directory mode = 0700
writeable = yes
browseable = no

However, I find that I must manually create the directory  in 
/home/samba/Profile/  for the user (%U) before profiles will be copied to 
the server.  Otherwise, it does not work.
This makes it inconvenient when creating new users, as the entire process 
cannot be automated.  I would like to have the profiles stored in the 
users' home directory as /%U/.Profiles (so that it will remain hidden to 
normal browsing).  I attempted this but it wouldn't work.  What exactly is 
the function of the "logon path" directive and, if it is relative to 
"netlogon", then how can I  specify a subdirectory within the users' home 
directory?




Gerry E. George  <ggeorge at digisolv.com>
Information Technology Specialist,
DigiSolv, Inc.
(758) 450-3444 / 3109 (fax)
http://www.digisolv.com


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